littlebrownkiwi01

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My Oppo 105 finally bricked. Streamer suggestions?
Hi,  if you want an easy alternative with wifi connection and don't want it to cost a new mortgage, try the Auralic Aries G2.1 running Tidal through Lightning DS.  This is a relatively inexpensive step up that avoids the 'haze' associated with Roo... 
Feel like I'm outta my mind....
Hi,  I've had a lifetime's worth of speakers - more recently Sonus Faber, Quad, Canton, Magico (S1 2), Ktema, Monitor Audio Gold 300, etc. Fed up with them all in no time: the small Magico 'bite' and edginess, much the same for the MA 300s (no bas... 
Which component to upgrade 1st ?
I recently had the same dilemma, but took some sound advice: change sources, amps and speakers to change the flavour / character of your system; change DACs, pre-amps and cables to fine-tune it. So I recently bought a 2nd-hand Sonnet Morpheus DAC ... 
Magico vs the world
Well, I've listened to various Magicos, mainly the S1 MkIIs through to the S5s. I don't really think of the S3s or S5s as being cool or clinical, as some have implied, just very real - with the right matching equipment and lots of watts driving th...